Brothers subjected 19 year old girl to "appalling" sexual assaults

TWO brothers who attacked and raped a 19-year-old woman have been jailed for a total of more than 11 years.

Stewart met the victim on a dating site, later assaulted her with his brother STOCK PHOTO

Alexander Stewart met the victim through a dating website before taking part in the sex attacks with his older, domineering sibling, Christopher Drummond – a convicted sex offender.

Yesterday, at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lady Carmichael told the pair: “Together, you subjected the 19-year-old complainer to an appalling series of sexual assaults.”

She added: “It was clear from the evidence that you, Christopher Drummond, dominated Alexander Stewart.” She jailed Drummond for seven years for his part in the rapes and his younger brother for four-and-a-half years.

The judge told Stewart that she considered him as someone prone to manipulation by his older, high-risk brother and that he was genuinely afraid of him. But the judge told Drummond his attitude to women was “extremely troubling”.

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Together, you subjected the 19-year-old complainer to an appalling series of sexual assaults

Judge Lady Carmichael

The judge ordered that Stewart, 20, should be given a further period of supervision for 18 months and told both brothers they would be on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

The attack happened at Stewart’s home at a flat in Invergordon, Easter Ross, in October last year.

A woman who saw the teenager following the assault and rapes committed on her said she was “crying hysterically”.

Drummond, 23, described as a “prisoner” and Stewart, of High Street, Invergordon, had denied assault and rape but were both found guilty.

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Drummond, the elder of the two, was described as a 'prisoner' (STOCK PICTURE POSED BY MODEL)

A woman told the court that she had gone to Stewart’s flat with her children and the victim on the night of the attack.

Christopher Drummond was also there when they arrived, she added.

The witness said that later he got the teenager to sit on his knee. The woman said: “He was touching her in a playful way round her waist.”

She added that Drummond and Stewart were drinking.

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The two brothers were sentenced to over 11 years between them

Some time later, the woman said she wanted to take the children home and also tried to get the teenager to come with her but she said she wanted to stay.

She told advocate depute Keith Stewart QC that she was concerned that the teenager should come back to her home.

The witness said that everyone eventually left the flat, including Drummond and Stewart, to walk her home with the children. She recalled later receiving a phone call from the teenager and added: “Her voice sounded scared.

“I said, ‘What’s wrong? What’s wrong?’. She said, ‘I am on the way back to you’.”

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Drummond received a harsher sentence as he was seen as the more 'domineering' of the two STOCK PHOTO

The woman went to meet her and added: “She was on her own. She was shaking and crying and she was pale.”

The woman asked her what had happened and called the police.

She said the victim was crying hysterically but she was eventually able to calm her down.

Following the pair’s convictions, it was revealed that Drummond had a more extensive criminal record than Stewart, having previously been placed on the sex offenders register as well as having convictions for violence.